Sr. Manager - Should Cost Engineering
Core
Lead cost engineering, strategic sourcing, and value engineering to drive product cost optimization and supplier negotiations for water technology solutions.
Role type
Senior Manager, Cost Engineering & Strategic Sourcing
Builds
Cost models, sourcing strategies, and value engineering initiatives for global product portfolios
Domain
Manufacturing / Water Technology / Supply Chain
Required skills
Should Costing, Zero-Based Costing, Bottom-up Costing, Parametric Cost Modeling, Design-to-Cost, Cost Benchmarking, Cost Gap Analysis, Clean Sheet Costing, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Negotiation, Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE), Make-vs-Buy Analysis, APQP, PPAP, Manufacturing Process Mapping, DFMA, GD&T, Category Management, Contract Negotiation, Program Management, Data Analytics, Lean Six Sigma
Preferred skills
MBA, Master's in Engineering, PG Diploma in Supply Chain Management, Strategic Procurement, Commodity Strategy, Supplier Relationship Management, PMP, Operational Excellence, AI-enabled Cost Analytics, Commercial Acumen
Technologies
aPriori, SAP, Power BI, Microsoft Excel (Advanced), Microsoft Project, JDE, Creo, AI-assisted Cost Analytics Platforms
Responsibilities
Develop and deploy advanced should-cost methodologies (bottom-up, zero-based, parametric, regression-based), execute supplier quote versus should-cost gap analysis, support global commodity managers in supplier negotiations, lead VA/VE projects and competitive benchmarking, maintain costing databases and benchmarks, mentor cost engineering team members, establish best practices for cost modeling, drive lifecycle cost reduction initiatives
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
